Women's March on Washington Unveils Its Official Platform

UNITED STATES - DECEMBER 8: The sun sets at the U.S. Capitol as the 114th session of Congress comes to a close on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016. The House passed spending bill to fund the government through April before heading home for the holiday recess. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Earlier this week, some women said that they wouldn’t attend the March after they felt some attendees were “alienating” white women. But the March’s platform makes it clear that it intends to advocate for all. In addition to reproductive rights, the platform includes sections about the group’s “moral imperative” to end racial inequality in the criminal justice system and expand the rights of LGBTQ individuals.

“We believe Gender Justice is Racial Justice is Economic Justice,” the platform reads. “We must create a society in which women, in particular women — in particular Black women, Native women, poor women, immigrant women, Muslim women, and queer and trans women — are free and able to care for and nurture their families, however they are formed, in safe and healthy environments free from structural impediments.”